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There will be more fires in Latin America in the coming years

  • June 15, 2023
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According to the leaders of the US Agency for International Development (YOU SAID), district of Latin America And caribbean the number of emergencies will increase due to fires

According to the leaders of the US Agency for International Development (YOU SAID), district of Latin America And caribbean the number of emergencies will increase due to fires due to the increase temperature Global.

Regional manager USAID/BHA for Latin America and the Caribbean, Tim Callaghan explained that while emergency action in America were focused on disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakesconsequences changing of the climate create rapid growth from fires in the region.

According to the expert, the situation in Canada an example of what’s to come, where around 470 fires continue resources and called smoke scattered across different cities USA. This year, flames in Canada have destroyed more than 4.8 million ha his forests.

But the fires, Callaghan pointed out, were observed not only in the northern part of the continent, since, according to USAID, since 2019have been seen unprecedented fires V Amazonaffects countries such as Bolivian, Paraguayan And Brazil.

For this reason, as the EFE regional director pointed out, the agency has “intensified its work in preparing for and responding to forest fires” in order to US Forest Service granted, in 2022 $3 million give education and technical assistance communities For prevent And reply before that.

Among the tools USAID teaches are Firefightingmodeling and smoke path, resource coordinationand recommendations protect scorched areawhich are delivered by a technical assistance team that can be deployed within 72 hours of the start of the fire.

According to EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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